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Lisa Berkman, Ph.D., is Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and of Epidemiology and Director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard School of Public Health. She is also a Gallup Senior Scientist.

Postsecondary Education Aspirations and Barriers

U.S. investor optimism plunged in September as investors expressed the feeling they had little or no control in their efforts to build and maintain their retirement savings. The Wells Fargo/Gallup Investor and Retirement Optimism Index plunged ...

Thirty-four percent of Americans say gold is the best long-term investment, more than say so about real estate, stocks, savings accounts, or bonds. Men, seniors, middle-income Americans, and Republicans are more enamored with gold than are other ...

Many Americans are relieved that government leaders in Washington avoided the fiscal cliff. However, there is another cliff to be aware of, one with implications that are far more frightening for the future of our country: the school cliff.

China will become the global economic leader sometime in the next 10 to 25 years, according to many economists. This means China -- and not the United States -- will have the largest GDP in the world, which will, of course, be a global game ...

Through our World Poll, Gallup learned that what everyone wants the most is a good job. This is the will of the world, and nothing outranks it: not the desire for family, peace, religion, or anything else.

Wharton researchers have discovered there's a significant difference in stock performance between great workplaces and lousy workplaces. You'd think this would be common sense, but it's not -- most U.S. workplaces are either miserable or ...

Worldwide, 27% of adults were employed full time for an employer in 2011, according to Gallup's new Payroll to Population measure. Payroll to Population rates varied from 52% in Sweden to 4% in the Central African Republic.

"The coming world war is an all-out global war for good jobs," says Gallup's chairman. But what kind of leadership does such a war demand? And who will win it?